https://www.timesofisrael.com/passover-closure-comes-into-effect-with-all-intercity-travel-banned/
Tuesday, April 7, 2020
Why public approval of Trump's coronavirus response may not save him in November
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/07/politics/2020-election-trump-approval-covid-pandemic/index.html
As America faces a potentially
unprecedented domestic death toll, the political situation facing Trump
may echo those confronting other presidents during wartime. In classic
research on the Korean and Vietnam wars, several political scientists
found that public support for those wars, and the presidents pursuing
them, declined as casualties increased. In the 2009 book "Paying the
Human Costs of War," Feaver and two colleagues qualified that research
to argue that in fact, the public is much more tolerant of casualties
when it believes that launching the war was the right decision and that
the US is headed toward success, than if it concludes the war effort is
doomed to fail.
That means the
casualty level alone typically doesn't decide a president's fate in
war-time, Feaver maintains. Instead, presidents face not only a
"prospective" judgment about whether they will win the war but a
"retrospective" verdict on whether launching the war was the right
choice at all. The equivalent in November, he says, might be a division
between a "prospective" judgment that the nation is heading out of the
coronavirus ordeal and a "retrospective" judgment that Trump compounded
the problem by initially reacting too slowly and downplaying the
problem.
Navarro's laughable claim that he knows better than Fauci
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/06/opinions/peter-navarro-anthony-fauci-hydroxychloroquine-expertise-hemmer/index.html
(CNN)Dr.
Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and
Infectious Diseases (NIAID), has yet to embrace hydroxychloroquine, the drug the President touts, without evidence, as a miracle treatment for Covid-19.
But someone in the administration has stepped up to promote the drug: Peter Navarro.
Navarro may seem like an odd
person to be stepping into this role. Unlike Fauci, an infectious
disease specialist who has directed NIAID under six presidents, Navarro
is an economist. His principal role in the White House is to oversee
trade policy.
But Navarro is ready to put his credentials up against Fauci's any day. As he told CNN on Monday:
"My qualifications in terms of looking at the science is that I'm a
social scientist. I have a PhD. And I understand how to read statistical
studies, whether it's in medicine, the law, economics or whatever."
While that's more expertise than President Trump claims -- "I'm not a doctor, but I have common sense," Trump said while promoting
the drug on Sunday -- it's a specious claim to expertise, one that fits
in well with the administration's long-running war against experts.
'Bad testing policy, lack of leadership, danger of irreparable damage'
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-SCIENCE/In-critical-report-Knesset-coronavirus-cmte-gives-govt-exit-strategy-623908
The Knesset coronavirus task force's report offered the government recommendations, such as making changes to the country’s testing policies and establishing a national crisis-management body.
Trump taunts media as mutual disgust reaches new depths
https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-taunts-media-as-mutual-disgust-reaches-new-depths
A number of people on my Twitter feed agree with Trump and Trotter
that reporters are peppering the president with “gotcha” questions.
These are usually along the lines of “you said X and now you’re doing
Y.” But every politician faces gotcha questions--some fair, some
unfair--and finessing them is part of the job. I don’t recall Trump
supporters demanding that reporters be positive when Barack Obama or
Bill Clinton was grappling with difficulties.
In such a polarized country, somewhere around half the public is
going to cheer Trump’s evisceration of the press, and somewhere around
half is going to applaud the journalistic denunciations of the
president. But right now people are dying. We’re facing what Trump’s
surgeon general called a Pearl Harbor moment. And yet the two sides keep
carpet-bombing each other.
Cabinet approves nationwide lockdown at 7 p.m., curfew from Wednesday afternoon
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-april-7-2020/
According to new regulations approved by the cabinet, Jerusalem
residents will be confined throughout the lockdown within their
respective regions sketched out by government officials, dividing the
city — which has the largest number of virus cases in the country — into
seven portions.
Rich humans, some born in Israel, created coronavirus, Argentinian TV host says
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278405
An Argentinean journalist apologized after saying that the
coronavirus was created by rich Americans and Israelis during a
prime-time news program.
Tomás Méndez, host of the popular ADN Tv, said on Wednesday that “bats are not responsible for the coronavirus, humans are.”
Those humans, he said, are “the richest of the world, some born in
the United States, others in Israel and another in Europe,” who “are the
owners of your life, who created this virus.” He singled out the
Rothschild family, who often appear in anti-Semitic conspiracy theories,
and Bill Gates.
His comments triggered harsh criticism
US rabbis: Stay home for Passover, don't visit family even in your city
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/278408
Revising previous guidance, Orthodox groups say no shared Passover seders should take place.
Inside DOJ's nationwide effort to take on China
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/04/07/justice-department-china-espionage-169653
The department’s targets range from
Chinese military officers to American college professors — evidence, its
leadership says, that the Chinese government is targeting every sector
of American public life. The Chinese government has denied allegations
of state-sponsored theft, according to media reports, and its embassy in Washington did not respond to POLITICO’s requests for comment on this story.
Last
month in West Virginia, for instance, a former West Virginia University
professor pleaded guilty to fraud. According to the charging document,
he asked the university to give him time off so he could care for his
newborn. But instead, he secretly used the time to work in China as part
of its Thousand Talents Plan, an effort by the Beijing government to
recruit and draw talented researchers to China that U.S. officials say
is thinly disguised economic espionage.
Data shows nearly 1/3rd of all virus cases centered in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak
https://www.timesofisrael.com/data-shows-nearly-1-3rd-of-all-virus-cases-centered-in-jerusalem-and-bnei-brak/
Defense Ministry-led research shows three-quarters of capital’s carriers live in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, recommends hardest-hit areas be isolated from other portions of city
Millions of eggs land in Israel to ease pre-Passover scramble
https://www.timesofisrael.com/millions-of-eggs-land-in-israel-to-ease-pre-passover-scramble/
Fragile cargo strapped into passenger seats on El Al planes in bid to relieve national shortage that has left supermarket shelves bare ahead of coming festival
The Problem with Telling Children They’re Better Than Others
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-telling-children-theyre-better-than-others/
When parents ask, “What grade did you get?” there is a common
follow-up question: “So who got the highest grade?” The practice of
making such social comparisons is popular in all corners of the world, research shows. Many educators select and publicly announce the “best student” in a class or school. Adults praise children for outperforming others. Sports tournaments award those who surpass others. Last year the Scripps National Spelling Bee awarded winners
with $50,000 cash prize and their own trophy—just for being better than
others. Most social comparisons are so common in daily life that they
are usually glossed over.
A Federal Report Found Coronavirus Test Shortages at U.S. Hospitals. Trump Attacked the Author
https://time.com/5816134/covid-us-hospitals-patients/
President Donald Trump on Monday disputed the veracity of a federal
survey that found hospitals faced severe shortages of coronavirus test
supplies, questioning whether its conclusions were skewed by politics.
With coronavirus cases rocketing toward their expected peak, the nonpartisan Health and Human Services inspector general’s office reported Monday morning that a shortage of tests and long waits for results were at the root of mounting problems faced by hospitals.
“Hospitals reported that severe shortages of testing
supplies and extended waits for test results limited (their) ability to
monitor the health of patients and staff,” the report said.
Three out of 4 U.S. hospitals told the inspector general’s office they are already treating patients with confirmed or suspected COVID-19, and they expect to be overwhelmed. The report did not criticize Trump administration actions.
Asked by a reporter about the survey’s finding on testing, Trump responded, “It is wrong.”
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